Ref: http://woodastic.blogspot.com/


We are finally underways with our building. We plan to update the blog every week for those who might be interested. So far the strongback is done and we begin cutting and fairing the stations this week.

By all means, keep us posted. And good luck!

Rolf:
I noticed you said you are on a budget, I am currently selling my older sails for $500.00 (jib and main) battens included. Now the only problem I can see is shipping them to your location wont be economically feasible.

Three at once!!! Sounds like a fleet building party.

Thanks for the offer Robi. Mainsail would never fit our masts and I do think we want to do the sails ourself. Nothing like crisp new sails

No problem Rolf, keep us updated. I am specially interested to see how that tornado rig is going to work out for you.

are you going to get the hulls down to weight with strip planking?
Have you done the weighing out?

We think it will work out well Stewart. We will pull off a test panel with 200gsm/4mm spruce/200gsm cloth once we have the stations set up to get some numbers. Considering that ply usually have three layers of epoxy on each side plus paint we should be good if we are careful with gaps (epoxy is heavy and expensive). I have also been talking with strip kayak and canoe designers about how to build light and got lots of tips. We have discused weight at length but only the test panel will tell. We will also do some experimental stuff inside the hulls to bring weight down as far as we dare. It will all be documented in the blog. Phill have come up with some new (to me) ideas which it will be fun to implement.

Good luck with the project Rolf. Keep posting the Blog address every time you update it - I can never remember these things
Maybe you should set up a webcam, so that we can all watch and give our opinions and advice on the cold winter evenings

Welcome to the club Rolf